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How to SAVE MONEY with HotDog Patient Warming
https://youtu.be/U-pWjdaLI5E Warren Loken, Director of Data and Analytics at Augustine Surgical, details how to compare costs between forced-air warming blankets and the HotDog® Temperature Management System in this short video. You'll learn how you should be saving money on your patient warming costs. HotDog Patient Warming: The Safer, Cost-Efficient Solution for Surgeries HotDog vs. Forced-air Warming Forced-air warming solutions are commonly used in the marketplace, but they come with a significant drawback – they are disposable. In contrast, the HotDog Patient Warming System is a reusable solution that offers two ways to adopt it. You can either make a capital [...]
The Benefits of Buying American Made Medical Equipment (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/FpFmcsiw3kg In Part 2 of this two-part video, Ryan Augustine, Director of Engineering at Augustine Surgical, gives us 4 of 7 benefits of buying American Made Medical Equipment. 4 Benefits of Buying American Made Medical Equipment: Innovation: Augustine Surgical is a highly innovative company with over 200 issued patients. Improved Customer Service: Our customer service department offices are in our facility which gives them access to additional engineering support, unlike an overseas call center. Faster Delivery Times: When you choose foreign-made products, you may be faced with inflated shipping costs and slow delivery times. Supporting Fair Wages and Worker Safety: [...]
The Benefits of Buying American Made Medical Equipment (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lm1C3iQMTg&ab_channel=HDPatientWarming Ryan Augustine, Director of Engineering at Augustine Surgical, gives us 3 of 7 benefits of buying American Made Medical Equipment in part 1 of this two-part video. 3 Benefits of Buying American Made Medical Equipment: Product Quality: America’s strict product safety and quality control standards ensure American made products are of high quality and are safe and effective. Lower Environmental Impact: America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has strict laws to minimize the harmful environmental impact of manufacturing. Jobs and the Economy: Some American manufacturers, such as Augustine Surgical have kept operations in the U.S. despite higher manufacturing costs. We [...]
Patient Temperature Monitoring and Automode with HotDog® Patient Warming
https://youtu.be/FlkkWmoihiM Dan Grewe and Jennifer Volkenant from Augustine Surgical introduce the latest, FDA-cleared feature available with the HotDog® Temperature Management System: patient temperature monitoring and automode. Learn more about Automode > Automode simplifies the delivery of care and maximizes the temperature management experience to aid both patient and clinician alike. Patients lose their ability to regulate temperature under general anesthesia, become hypothermic without effective active warming, and are at risk to many adverse outcomes including higher infection rates, more blood loss, and more cardiac events. Therefore, it is important to know what the patient's core temperature is to inform care [...]
Top 5 Patient Warming Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C6PVdVefd8 The Top 5 Patient Warming Studies that you need to know. This video includes a brief description of what makes each one important and can help inform important clinical decisions. Top 5 Patient Warming Studies: Forced-air warming is marginally effective (Sun et al), and HotDog Patient Warming is significantly more effective (Sugai et al). Hypothermic patients are at risk for adverse outcomes including 3.1x higher infection rate (Kurz et al). A single hypothermic patient increases hospitalization costs by $2,500-7,000 (Mahoney and Odom). Forced-air systems contaminate the air in the surgical field whereas HotDog does not (Legg and Hamer; Nishida [...]
Patient Warming in Outer Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YRImi0HJMI&ab_channel=HDPatientWarming International Space Station HotDog Patient Warming is used in outer space aboard the International Space Station. Learn why HotDog meets the unique challenges in a micro-gravity environment and how that applies to patient temperature management on earth! For more about the strange thermal challenges of life in space, click the link below for an excellent article by NASA: Staying Cool on the ISS Transcript HotDog's in outer space? Far out! Just this previous summer HotDog Patient Warming became the only patient warming system trusted by NASA as it lifted off on the SPX 25 Dragon launch vehicle and headed to the [...]
How We Make the World’s Best Flexible Heaters
https://youtu.be/IWLvcS8atXg Want to see how to make HotDog Patient Warming products? Of course you do! We consider these to be the the world's best flexible heaters. Come behind-the-scenes with this short video to see the steps involved in creating a safe/effective medical device. The lean process appears very simple, but there is a lot of technology and know-how involved. In fact, we've decided that we can confidently show this level of detail because over 16 US patents containing up to 150 claims protect our products: https://hotdogwarming.com/patents/ Numerous safety and quality checks throughout the process ensure every single HotDog Patient Warming [...]
International Demand and Distribution
https://youtu.be/nJ6eSQeUhuI The HotDog Temperature Management System is currently available in 45 countries. Clearly, there is worldwide demand for sustainable, effective, affordable, air-free patient warming. Unintended hypothermia is a major contributor to negative outcomes for surgical patients. Therefore, a trusted patient warming system is critical. In this video, we are with our Australian partners, Lateral Medical, at the Australia New Zealand Congress for Anesthesia (ANZCA). Learn about why HotDog® Patient Warming and WaffleGrip® Warm & Secure™ are ideal for temperature management and Trendelenburg Securement in Australia, and, similarly, all around the world. If you are interested in improving patient outcomes (through [...]
How to Fix Some Medical Supply Chain Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aXfnjVN4Q8 Dr. Augustine shares his thoughts on current medical supply chain issues with specific focus on patient warming, where backorders and supply delays are a consistent and recurring problem. Reusables are a reliable solution for some supply chain shortages in healthcare, especially for non-sterile products. Part 1: Why Disposables? (0:31 - 1:21) Part 2: The Supply Chain (1:22 - 2:18) Part 3: The Role of China (2:19 - 3:03) Part 4: When Reusables Make Sense (3:04 - 3:59) Part 5: Reduce Disposable Waste (4:00 - 5:01) Dr. Augustine wrote about this very issue in #Anesthesiology publication ASA Monitor: https://pubs.asahq.org/monitor/article-abstract/87/4/e5/137954/Reusables-A-Reliable-Solution-for-Some-Supply?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Improve Normothermia in Aesthetic Surgery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBECfM1Vz8 HotDog Patient Warming is ideally suited for managing normothermia during aesthetic surgery.